THP Articles Spotlight Classroom Practices

Teaching for High Potential has a wealth of material related to classroom strategies and curricular methodology. Explore feature articles and special columns below to uncover reader-friendly lessons and curricular advice from THP authors and columnists. Use the issue reference at the end of the title to access the issue.

Teaching What is Essential: Asking the Essential Questions
by MacFarlane, B

The use of Essential Questions in curricular planning and delivery can help students learn independently and also provide the connective tissue between what matters at the heart of the curriculum and assessment of what students have learned.

Winter 2015

The Enrichment Seminar: A Middle/ Secondary Course for Gifted Learners
by Simpson, J

Create courses, programs, and activities that may positively influence the identity formation of students.

NAGC believes that great research comes from great classroom practice, just as great classroom practice comes from great research. In an effort to connect current research from the pages of Gifted Child Quarterly (GCQ) with quality classroom practice, many issues of THP contain an article written by an author of a related article in GCQ.

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Description

THP Issue

Building on the Best of Gifted Education with Programming for Talent Developmentby Olszewski-Kubilius, P., Subotnik, R., and Worrell, F.

There is great diversity among gifted students in terms of their talent areas, their levels of achievement, and their psychological and social characteristics. A talent development framework that emphasizes several key components has several implications for K-12 education.

Fall 2012

Gifted Program Retrospective: Teachers Look Back at Own Experiencesby Willard-Holt, C.

Female teachers who were gifted students reflect on the emotional pros and cons of their schooling.

Fall 2008

The Role of Teachers when Gifted Students Experience Negative Life Events
by Peterson, J.

Insights into situations and events that produce a negative effect on GT students and how teachers can help.

Winter 2009

Project EXCITE: Implications for Educators of Gifted Minority Students
by Reed, M.

African American and Hispanic youth are exposed to enriching educational experiences, over time and with like peers, to build a sense of "scholar identity."

Spring 2009

Big Ships, Small Ships, Friendships, and Competition: Things to Consider
by Gyles, P.

How self-concept, social support structures, and competition come into play in the types of friendships GT students form.

Spring 2009

Demythologizing Gifted Education: A 25-Year Journey
by Treffinger, D.

Treffinger tackles the issues gifted education has had to confront in terms of common myths historically and today.